Gregory of Nazianzus De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31) 3

Arthur James Mason (Translator)

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De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31). Gregory of Nazianzus. Arthur James Mason (Translator). Germany. 2014.

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De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31) (Greek) (Gregory of Nazianzus. The Five Theological Orations. Mason, Arthur James, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1899.)

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De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31)

1. 2 ταυτα...ταυτα] ταὐτὰ . . . ταὐτὰ ceg || 4 τρεψώμεθα eg 3. 5 θέον τινα b || 12 0] ω ‘ Reg. a, Or. 1’
2. 3. ἐπεὶ καὶ ἡμεῖς] The use of ἐπεί, where perh. we might have expected ὡς, seems to be in favour of the reading ταὐτά, which would thus be taken to mean, ’since we agree with ’ But the mss. are not of very great value in matters of this kind (and it must be remembered that the principal MS. fails us at this point) ; and it would be difficult to supply a verb that would suit ταὐτά, which the obvious φιλοσοφοῦμεν would not do. Ἐπεὶ will therefore indicate that the proposed division of labour is a fair one : the ἔτεροι (by whom Gr. prob. means, not Basil, but students who wer still living to profit by his labours), have worked at that particular study for our advantage as well as their own, and we will leave it to them, since we are labouring at this other for theirs as well as ours.
3. 3. Zeal for the letter ὁ Scripture is sometimes a cloak for My confidence in the Godhead of the Holy Ghost is absolute. He ἲς the Light that lighteneth every man, equally with the Father and the Son. I will fearlessly proclaim Him.
4. 5. παρέγγραπτον] wrongly entered on the list ; cp. iii 18.
5. 7. πρόπολεμοῦντες τ. γρ] Gr. will not say τῆς γραφῆς ; cp. iv 1 οἱ τοῦ γράμματος ἱερόσυλοι.
6. ib. ἐκεῖ φοβούμενοι φ.] Ps. Iii 6 (Hii 5).
7. 11. εἰς δύναμιν] ’ to the best ὁ our power.’
8. 12. θαρροῦμεν τῆ θ.] ‘have such confidence ’ not merely in the sense of believing that the thing is so, but in that of resting upon it for support.
9. ib. πρεσβεύομεν] ’revere’; cp. i 5.
10. 13. τῆς θεολογίας] ‘of θὶς account of the Godhead. ’ For numerous exx. of the use of the word, see Suicer s.v.
11. ib. ἐντεῦθεν] explained by the clause τὰς αὐτὰς . . . ἐφαρμόζοντες.